who here is to afraid to ask where the toilet is?

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when Im out in public and I need to go Im too scared to ask anyone where the WC is, because I think they will laugh at me.
Although I have no trouble holding liquids in though
does anyone else expereince this?

I hate the initial moment of discomfort, but if I gotta go, I gotta go!

Same as hartzofspace. I have just not bothered to ask and held it in the past, but nowadays I just make myself. The relief is worth the awkwardness.

Once when I was just starting in the workforce, I was working in a Public Library.

They had toilets for staff use but none for the public. Their toilets were through the staff room.

We got told that absolutely nobody was allowed to use the toilets.

But then we kept having mothers complain during storytime (as a parent now, I understand, though I didn't then).

In the end, we had a staff meeting and they said that people could only use the staff toilet if they needed to go very badly.

a few days later a girl of about 16-18 years asked about the toilet.

I asked her "exactly how badly do you need to go".

She was really embarrassed - so was I - and I ended up letting her go.

Now I see it for what it was, an aspie rule thing.

Am would sooner do it in trousers,than in toilet away from home,am only used to using one toilet at home [a routine thing],am do not notice the feel of needing the toilet until it's about to go,so if am get that feel,am sign to staff so they can quickly get am home, the thought of wee doesn't bother,it's only recycled drink.

Availability of acceptable toilet facilities is (or should be) a basic human right. No shame in wanting to know where you can shite.

People ask me where the toilet is all the time at work. I just point it out to them..

I don't understand what would be funny about that. I mean, they just gotta urinate, and want to know where to do so.

I used to be afraid to ask for the restroom (it struck me as immature for some reason), but during the past few years, I've started to adhere to this philosophy. After all, we're all human, and we all need a place to take a leak/dump from time to time. Heck, that has been around ever since animals first started to live on land, many millions of years ago. So why be embarrassed to ask for the restroom, then?

Or, to put it another way, only a torturer would happily deny someone the use of toilet facilities.

Apparently that torturer is my science teacher. She doesn't write hall passes for anything. ANYTHING. I've sicked my parents on her (since parents + legal issues = school in big trouble in our district) to no avail.